I have the following in mind: A PentiumII-350MHz with Linux/Csound
connected via MIDI to another PC (Pentium90) running a MIDI Sequencer.
A MIDI Keyboard will be connected to the PC runnong the Sequencer. The
PentiumII350 with Csound should work as Realtime-MIDI-Synthesizer.
Now for realtime playing/recording into the Sequencer, I would set
the sampling rate in Csound to about 15000 - 22000Hz, mono. When I'm done,
I will save the work in a MIDI-File and then render it non-realtime
with 44kHz stereo.

Will that work ? Has anyone used such kind of a setup ? And about
the subject line of this mail: How many times faster is a up-to-date
DSP compared to a PentiumII-350 in floating point operations ?


Thomas